May 29, 2025

Over 700 ACS data users attended the 2025 ACS Data Users Conference, which was held virtually on May 29, 2025.

The conference program is posted below. To view PDF versions of the presentations, click on the links in the "Presentation Title" column. Video recordings of the breakout and plenary sessions will be posted in the coming weeks.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Session Title Time (EDT) Moderator Presenter(s) Presentation Title
Welcome/ Introduction 10:00 AM -
10:15 AM
  Diana Elliott, PRB  
Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau 
Opening Remarks 10:15 AM -
10:30 AM
  Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau  
What’s New with the American Community Survey Program 10:30 AM -
11:30 AM
Diana Ellliott, PRB Donna Daily, Kanin Reese, and Lacey Loftin, U.S. Census Bureau What’s New with the American Community Survey Program (PDF)
How Data Users Leverage the ACS for Outcomes 11:30 AM -
12:45 PM
Joel Alvarez, NYC Department of City Planning Thomas Bryan, BryanGeoDemo Presentation (PDF)
Melinda Vonstein, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission Presentation (PDF)
Rodolfo Gutierrez, HACER Presentation (PDF)
Bob Coats, North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management Presentation (PDF)
Break 12:45 PM -
1:00 PM
     
Using the API 1:00 PM-
2:20 PM
Emily Harris, Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah Anna Vasylytsya, U.S. Census Bureau Streamlining ACS Data: The Case for Tidy Data (PDF)
Fabio Correa Duran, Florida State University Spec Files As Tools To Maintain And Extend ACS API Queries (PDF)
Benjamin Taft, Higher Expectations for Racine County A Pipeline For Tracking Community-Defined Systems Indicators Using The ACS API And R (PDF)
Jan Vink, Cornell University A Flexible Excel Tool To Retrieve ACS Data (PDF)
Data Products Demonstration 1:00 PM -
2:20 PM
Erica Maurer, New York City Department of City Planning Caleb Hopler, U.S. Census Bureau Tips for Using the ACS Website (PDF)
Tyson Weister, U.S. Census Bureau data.census.gov (PDF)
Maria Valdisera, U.S. Census Bureau Microdata Access Tool (MDAT) (PDF)
Sam Patton, U.S. Census Bureau Census API (PDF)
Child Care and School Enrollment 1:00 PM -
2:20 PM
Melanie Poulter, Tulsa Area United Way Elli Nikolopoulos, Laura Jimenez Parra, Rebecca H. Berger, and Gina Adams, Urban Institute Using the ACS and Public Data Sources to Map Public Benefits Access and Barriers in Georgia (PDF)
Rimsha Khan, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York Modeling the (Un)Affordability of Child Care and Out-of-School Care in New York City (PDF)
Jill Walsh and Cynthia Willner, CTData Collaborative Using the ACS PUMS to Explore the Affordability of Market-Rate Child Care for Connecticut Families (PDF)
Leah Clark, U.S. Census Bureau; Quentin Brummet, NORC; Christopher Cleveland, Brown University; Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Paul Hanselman, Emily Penner, and Andrew Penner, University of California-Irvine; Paul Yoo, Stanford University Pandemic-Era Public School Disenrollment Across the Income Distribution (PDF)
Break 2:20 PM -
2:30 PM
     
Synthetic Data 2:30 PM -
3:50 PM
Bryan Grady, South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce Joseph Tuccillo, Angela Cunningham, James Gaboardi, and Whitson Buck, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Using Synthetic Populations to Model Travel Burdens Among U.S. Veterans Health Administration Patients (PDF)
Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota The Challenge of Synthetic Census Microdata: A Researcher Perspective (PDF)
Ana I. Sanchez Rivera and Rae Ellis, U.S. Census Bureau Leveraging Instrument Test Paradata: Strategies for Managing Sensitive Data Challenges (PDF)
Lightning 2:30 PM -
3:50 PM
Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Jill Janocha Redmond and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Remote Work and Productivity Growth 2019–2023 (PDF)
Lindsey Elliott, Drew Rosebush, Amanda Weinstein, and Oliver Leroy, CORI/RISI Estimating County-Level Quality of Life Over Time with Census Data (PDF)
Ilham Dehry, Greg Acs, Linda Giannarelli, and Margaret Todd, Urban Institute Measuring the True Cost of Economic Security: What Does It Take to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in the US Today? (PDF)
Martha Jones, Vanderbilt University; P. Tim Bushnell, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Estimating FTE Denominators for Injury Rates by State and Industry (PDF)
Kelyvette Ortiz Fontanez, Ana I. Sanchez Rivera, and Yazmin Garcia Trejo, U.S. Census Bureau Developing a Low Response Score for Puerto Rico (PDF)
John Powers, Timothy Carey, Taylor Hargrove, Robert Bowers, Emily Pfaff, and Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Aubrey Limburg and Victoria Udalova, U.S. Census Bureau; Amy Shaheen, UNC Health Alliance Caring for Communities: Comparing Health Care System Patient Populations to Regional Populations (PDF)
Brian Glassman, Lizzy Pelletier, and Adrienne DiTommaso, U.S. Census Bureau The Inclusion of the Prison Population in Income and Poverty Estimates in the ACS (PDF)
Diana Lavery, Alberto Nieto, and Catherine McSorley, Esri Assess Sensitivity to Margins of Error in Hot Spot Analysis (PDF)
Housing 2:30 PM -
3:50 PM
Keith Wiley, Housing Assistance Council Brielle Bryan, Rice University; Seth Williams, Louisiana State University Locked Out of Place: How Neighborhood Level Factors Influence Housing Discrimination Against People with Felony Convictions (PDF)
Brandon Stanaway, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) Household Projections Using Estimated Household Formation Rates of Overcrowded Households (PDF)
Erik Gartland, Alicia Mazzara, and Will Fischer, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Where Households Using Federal Rental Assistance Live (PDF)
Natasha Moodie, Justin Sackey, Keith Wiley, and Lance George, Housing Assistance Council Heirs’ Property in High-Needs Rural Regions (PDF)
Break 3:50 PM -
4:00 PM
     
Combining ACS with Other Survey or Administrative Data 4:00 PM -
5:20 PM
Monica Cruz, Texas Demographic Center Jin Yao, Steve Yoder, and Shannon Porter, Johnson County Government, KS Enhancing Population Estimates by Combining ACS and Local Data in Johnson County, KS (PDF)
William Brownsberger and Regina Fink, Massachusetts State Senate Divergence Between ACS Reported Rent Burden and Administrative Data (PDF)
Camila Moreno and Katy Stigers, Fahe Using Google Earth to Address Sampling Challenges of Manufactured Home Counts in Rural Places (PDF)
Jeffrey Morenoff and Noah Attal, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy; Christopher Dick, Demographic Analytics Advisors Unaccounted Migration: How Non-Filers Affect IRS-Based Estimates of Domestic Migration (PDF)
ACS Methods 4:00 PM -
5:20 PM
Tricia Ruiz, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Hillary Steinberg,  Leann Weyl, Joy Barger, Brian Wilson, Greg Seymour, Imani Tene Morgan, and J. Taylor, U.S. Census Bureau Testing Improvements to ACS Response through Design: Two Experiments in the Implementation Stage (PDF)
Benjamin Gurrentz, Anthony Knapp, Isabelle Notter, and Mark Frame, U.S. Census Bureau The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database and Forthcoming Updates (PDF)
Dorothy Barth, U.S. Census Bureau Using Administrative Records Data in the American Community Survey: Overview and Updates (PDF)
Luke Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau Continuing to Revise the Census Bureau's Low Response Score (PDF)
Using ACS Data for Planning 4:00 PM -
5:20 PM
Jake Michael, Chester County (PA) Planning Commission Tiffany Kindratt, Mercy Obasanya, Thanayi Lambert, and Kyrah K. Brown University of Texas at Arlington; Saeideh Fallah-Fini, CalPolyPomona; Deneen Robinson, TRUTH Pregnancy Resource Center; Michael K. Lemke, UTHealth Houston, School of Public Health San Antonio Leveraging ACS Data to Address Racial Disparities in Maternal Health: Preliminary Quantitative Steps in a System Dynamics Group Model Building Project in Texas (PDF)
Pei Yang Hsieh, Kate Kelsey, Jennifer Para-MacDougall, Zachary Robinson, and Mandeep Sidhu, County of Santa Clara Mapping ACS Demographic Data to Assess Extreme Heat Vulnerability in Santa Clara County (PDF)
Erica Maurer, Joel Alvarez, and  Peter Lobo, New York City Department of City Planning The Case for Greater Detail in ACS Summary File Languages (PDF)
R. Chase Sawyer, Bethany DeSalvo, Heather King, and Joey Marshall, U.S. Census Bureau How is ACS Data Being Used at the Census Bureau to Support Disaster Recovery? (PDF)
Closing Remarks 5:20 PM -
5:30 PM
  Diana Elliott, PRB  
Donna Daily, U.S. Census Bureau 
 
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2021 ACS Data Users Conference

2019 ACS Data Users Conference

2017 ACS Data Users Conference

2015 ACS Data Users Conference

2014 ACS Data Users Conference

2014 ACS Workshop: Benefits and Challenges of the ACS

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